"I proved I can hire a good manager when I hired that guy i fired in a fit of pique because he didn't genuflect low enough for a man of my accomplishments..."

Maybe not the best argument I've heard recently...

Mozeliak really is a one who sucks the penis, but they just all share the same common affliction and that's why none of them can see it in the rest.

DeWitt and his stupid kid are so damn convinced of their superiority that they have no concept of what a smug dickhead Mozeliak is in his own right.

I think I still have it in my signature block, but it applies perfectly here:

"When you're wearing rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags..."

The DeWitts are blind to this shit because they're just as infected by it as Mozeliak is.

Mozeliak is an incompetent weasel and a prickish charlatan. But the problem has clearly gone well past him. And the more the DeWitts speak, the more obvious that fact becomes.

I don't WANT to see them fire the entire leadership team and replace them. Because then they might actually get to experience success. I do not want that for this family.

As a Cardinals fan, the only satisfactory outcome is a sale. And sure, that's the DeWitts liquidating a $50 million asset into something like $3 billion so they win even by 'losing' - but that stupid one who sucks the penis kid of theirs will have pissed that away in a decade.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">While times were good, they were really good. But when things fall apart horribly, these types of organizations see their steadiness become inaction, a large slow moving barge with no room to maneuver.</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1790773254895870050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Instead, they just mostly stayed the course and outside of the Gray signing (which I thought was excellent), concentrated on a simple patch up job.</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1790773256984596511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">But the offense has fallen apart and now the time likely doesn&#39;t have the depth of talent to wait things out, but both tearing it down or retooling aggressively are more painful than it would have been last summer/last winter</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1790773259069280335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Jordan Walker over his first 61 plate appearances with Triple-A Memphis:

.315/.377/.389 with 0 HR.

9.8 BB%, 13.1% K, 104 wRC+

Keep in mind that Triple-A pitching is vastly inferior to the majors. Eno Sarris has a figure called STUFF+ that rates the pitches of hurlers. If 100 is average on the STUFF+ scale, Sarris has found that the STUFF+ figure for an average Triple-A pitcher is 87.

ISO of .074.

Same shit, worse pitching and worse defense.

Balls are getting though AAA defenses that normally wouldn't, so he has an unreasonably high BA. The power is still shite and is seemingly worse than it was even at the big league level.

Keep him there.

If you can't give you an ISO of .150 with that raw power and those tools, then he's doing it wrong.

He's every bit the mess that he was when he went down. The entire staff, major and minor leagues, needs to be fired into the sun. They cannot fix him.

Right handed Heyturd without the defense?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Cardinals City Connect uniform is HERE ��<br><br>A city and a team that have been inseparable for over 140 years. The Birds. The Bat. The Lou. <a href="https://t.co/zf5p7GW047">pic.twitter.com/zf5p7GW047</a></p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1792543498299658427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not too bad for a City Connect jersey.

Looks like a little league uniform

One of the few things they got right recently.

I just wonder if they intentionally connected the city to a toilet to reflect the standings.

Best season ever for a pitcher? ERA of 1.12.

Yup ROFL

Gibby was great, and one of my all time favorites the 13 shutouts that year is itself amazing especially compared to the norm the last 3 decades. He was such a good athlete, you wonder if he could have been more dominant longer without all those innings, but there was no way to pull him out during that era and really was a badge of honor for all pitchers.

The one comparison I would say to best ever year would be Pedro's 2000 year. A 1.74 ERA in the "Steroid Era" when the league average ERA was 4.76.

In 1968 "The Year of the Pitcher" the league average was something like 2.98. Lowering the mound wasn't just because of Gibson.

I still would choose Gibby's year, but understand the argument for Martinez.

1.74 in the roid era is more impressive to me